This episode celebrates two new outstanding documentaries that have been in the festival circuit these past months. Filmmaker Sasha Wortzel makes...
The Texas based filmmaker Bryan Poyser returns for his 3rd visit to the podcast. It’s been 11 years since he visited. His new film, a comedy...
Struggling documentarian Simon (Tristan Turner) relies on the unique perk of his roommate and best friend Bruce’s (Anthony Oberbeck) airline job:...
Founder and Artistic Director of the Berkshires International Film Festival, Kelley Vickery makes her 3rd appearance on the podcast. The 19th...
Rob King returns to the podcast. He is a professor of film and media studies at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is the author...
After 10 years, the filmmaker and author Alex R. Johnson returns to the podcast. Alex R. Johnson is a writer and filmmaker who lives and works in...
“Chinatown” is inarguably one of the greatest films ever made in the United States. While Roman Polanski is often credited for that...
Based on a true story, “The Luckiest Man in America” is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio (Paul Walter...
The filmmaker Geremy Jasper (“Patti Cake$”) returns for her second visit to the podcast with his new film, “O’Dessa”...
The documentary filmmaker Jeremy Workman (“The World Before Your Feet”, “Lily Topples the World” )returns for his 7th visit...
During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic (Thomas Mogotlane), a mapantsula or petty gangster, while rounding up...
Follow the intellectual and emotional journey of a group of medical students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the new PBS...
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan (“Exotica”, “The Sweet Hereafter”) returns after 9 years for his third appearance on the podcast. He...
Senior Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, Eric Hynes, is my guest in the first segment. Eric and I discuss the Museum’s...
The film author and teacher William J. Mann makes his first appearance on the podcast. Mann is a New York Times-bestselling author of many books on...